Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden EraUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1.4.2016 - 440 sivua James Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant? Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm playing a part. It's a part I've been playing a long time, but no way am I really Cary Grant. A friend told me once, "I always wanted to be Cary Grant." And I said, "So did I."—from the book In Conversations with Classic Film Stars, retired journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller present an astonishing collection of rare interviews with the greatest celebrities of Hollywood's golden age. Conducted over the course of more than fifty years, they recount intimate conversations with some of the most famous leading men and women of the era, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joseph Cotten, Cary Grant, Gloria Swanson, Joan Fontaine, Loretta Young, Kirk Douglas, and many more. Each interview takes readers behind the scenes with some of cinema's most iconic stars. The actors convey unforgettable stories, from Maureen O'Hara discussing Charles Laughton's request that she change her last name, to Bob Hope candidly commenting on the presidential honors bestowed upon him. Humorous, enlightening, and poignant, Conversations with Classic Film Stars is essential reading for anyone who loves classic movies. |
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... Joan Crawford, who was first billed, got sick and was in the hospital. [Director] Bob Aldrich tried to replace her with Vivien Leigh, who cabled, “I could just about stand to be in a southern plantation at 5 a.m. with Miss Crawford. But ...
... Joan Crawford. In the 1940s, Douglas became deeply involved in liberal causes and Democratic Party politics. He was married to former stage and screen star Helen Gahagan (She, 1935), who became a member of the U.S. Congress ...
... Joan Crawford opus The Gorgeous Hussy [1936]. I was John Randolph, Lionel Barrymore was Andrew Jackson, and it was crackers as.
... Joan would arrive with a long retinue of servants, hairdressers, maids ... Crawford once explained to me she was over Clark Gable and Bill Powell but ... Crawford in Strange Cargo [1940], she kicked up quite a stink because it would ...
... Joan Crawford weepie. We had a great director [Frank Borzage] and he could do nothing with it. It just did not make much sense anymore. The surprise was Joan and Margaret Sullavan got on very well together, so much so that Joan decided ...
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Douglas Fairbanks | |
Joan Fontaine | |
Dorothy Lamour | |
Rosalind Russell | |
Jane Wyman | |
Loretta Young | |
Jane Greer | |
Bob Hope | |
Margaret Hamilton | |
Van Johnson | |
Anne Baxter | |
Joan Blondell | |
Irene Dunne | |
Keye Luke | |
Harold Russell | |
Acknowledgments | |
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